Polarion Installation Guide for Linux and Perform the Recommended Configuration As Described
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Polarion® Application Lifecycle Management Platform Installation Guide for Linux Version: 2015 SR1 Polarion Application Lifecycle Management Platform Installation Guide for Linux Copyright © 2008-2015 Polarion Software Permission is granted to use, copy, and distribute this document provided that the content is not modified and the above copyright notice and this statement appear in all copies. Polarion is a registered trademark of Polarion Software. Polarion ALM, Polarion REQUIREMENTS, Polarion QA and Polarion VARIANTS are trademarks or registered trademarks of Polarion Software. Apache is a trademark of Apache Software Foundation Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Word are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Other trademarks referenced are property of their respective owners. Updated: 26-June-2015 Table of Contents ABOUT THIS GUIDE ....................................................................................................................................... 3 EVALUATION INSTALLATIONS .................................................................................................................. 3 LARGE-SCALE INSTALLATIONS ................................................................................................................. 3 DOCUMENT CONVENTIONS ........................................................................................................................ 3 1. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS .................................................................... 4 SERVER SOFTWARE ...................................................................................................................................... 4 SERVER HARDWARE ..................................................................................................................................... 4 CLIENT SOFTWARE ....................................................................................................................................... 5 CLIENT HARDWARE ...................................................................................................................................... 5 ADDITIONAL RECOMMENDATIONS ......................................................................................................... 5 LIBRARIES REQUIRED FOR BUILDING THE DEMO PROJECTS ....................................................................................... 5 LIBRARY REQUIRED FOR EXPORTING HIGHCHARTS CHARTS ..................................................................................... 6 ENABLE EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS ...................................................................................................................................... 6 ENABLE SUPPORT FOR JAVADOC ..................................................................................................................................... 6 2. LINUX INSTALLATION AND OVERVIEW ............................................................................................. 7 INSTALLATION TYPES .................................................................................................................................. 7 AUTOMATED INSTALLATION .................................................................................................................... 7 SUPPORTED LINUX VERSIONS FOR AUTOMATED INSTALLATION .............................................................................. 7 AUTOMATED INSTALLATION PROCESS .......................................................................................................................... 8 MANUAL INSTALLATION ............................................................................................................................. 9 3. AUTOMATED INSTALLATION PROCEDURE ................................................................................... 10 4. SYSTEM STARTUP AND SHUTDOWN ............................................................................................... 11 STARTING POLARION ................................................................................................................................ 11 SHUTTING DOWN POLARION ................................................................................................................. 11 INTEGRATION WITH INIT SYSTEM ....................................................................................................... 11 5. AFTER INSTALLATION .......................................................................................................................... 12 SECURING THE POLARION ACTIVATION APPLICATION ................................................................ 12 CHANGING DEFAULT SYSTEM PASSWORDS ....................................................................................... 12 CHANGING THE DEFAULT SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR PASSWORD .......................................................................... 13 CHANGING THE PASSWORD FOR SVN USER ‘POLARION’ .......................................................................................... 13 Note for LDAP Users ................................................................................................................................................... 14 CONFIGURING OLE OBJECT SUPPORT .................................................................................................. 14 PREREQUISITES ................................................................................................................................................................ 14 INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION .......................................................................................................................... 14 CONFIGURING POLARION FOR OLE .............................................................................................................................. 15 LICENSING AND ACTIVATION ................................................................................................................. 15 1 USING DIFFERENT LICENSE TYPES ................................................................................................................................ 16 ASSIGNING NAMED AND CONCURRENT USERS ............................................................................................................ 16 LICENSE USAGE LOG FILE ................................................................................................................................................ 16 ALTERNATE REPOSITORY ACCESS ........................................................................................................ 17 MULTIPLE REPOSITORY SETUP ............................................................................................................. 17 ACCESSING THE POLARION PORTAL .................................................................................................... 17 LDAP AUTHORIZATION ............................................................................................................................ 17 NEXT STEPS AFTER INSTALLATION ..................................................................................................... 18 REMOVING POLARION ............................................................................................................................... 18 7. TECHNICAL SUPPORT ........................................................................................................................... 19 APPENDIX ...................................................................................................................................................... 20 DEFAULT USERS AND GROUPS ............................................................................................................... 20 ENABLING EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS ....................................................................................................... 20 MANUAL INSTALLATION ON LINUX ...................................................................................................... 20 1. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ............................................................................................ 21 2. REQUIRED THIRD-PARTY SOFTWARE COMPONENTS ........................................................................................... 21 Apache Server ............................................................................................................................................................... 21 Subversion ...................................................................................................................................................................... 21 Java SE JDK ..................................................................................................................................................................... 21 Fonts Package ............................................................................................................................................................... 22 3. CONFIGURATION OF THIRD-PARTY COMPONENTS ............................................................................................... 22 Apache HTTPD ............................................................................................................................................................. 22 Subversion .....................................................................................................................................................................